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Sure, I was just making a list. Causality is it's own deal. Arguably, laws of nature, if they're real, transcend physics. But that is a totally differ...
January 30, 2017 at 19:04
That the physics of the world necessitates the existence of everything. Which means that particles, fields of force, spacetime, constants, and laws of...
January 30, 2017 at 18:58
What is the goal, then? The OP is asking how intentional content can be incorporated into a physicalist framework. That is traditionally part of the m...
January 30, 2017 at 18:49
Nothing can be said about nothing. And yet, we say something. Language creating something from nothing. Is that how God performed ex nihilo?
January 30, 2017 at 18:43
Jesus man, this isn't that difficult of a concept. Is everything made up of the stuff of physics, or not?
January 29, 2017 at 23:04
It's saying something about the nature of the physical world, since physicists aren't God.
January 29, 2017 at 20:23
The rules of the game of life plus it's initial starting position logically entail any patterns that emerge during that game. If you had a super compl...
January 29, 2017 at 20:22
No, it means that if you knew everything about physics, you would know everything that could be made up of physics, whether it's realized in our unive...
January 29, 2017 at 20:18
So in all possible worlds where the furniture of the world is exactly the same, do you always have consciousness, intentionality, abstract categories,...
January 29, 2017 at 20:16
It means exactly the same thing as saying that everything is made of XYZ. It's a statement of what ontologically exists, and by contrast, what does no...
January 29, 2017 at 20:13
What sense are you talking about it in? A peculiar one where you get to say that everything is physical, but don't have to back it up with ontological...
January 29, 2017 at 20:10
This is a philosophy forum, so no I'm not talking about the science of physics, I'm referring to what the metaphysical doctrine physicalism requires.
January 29, 2017 at 19:35
That everything we know is derived from sense-experience? That's still a matter of knowledge, not ontology. An empiricist might limit their ontology t...
January 29, 2017 at 19:33
Sure, but they need to be entailed by physics, even if there's a probability attached to it. QM doesn't posit entirely new things coming into existenc...
January 29, 2017 at 19:14
Empiricism is a matter of how we know, not what exists. So no, time isn't empirical, except in that we know about time by experiencing it. "Everything...
January 29, 2017 at 19:12
Ontology and empiricism are two different concerns. Anyway, I meant to edit my post to add: As such, it needs to show how everything is exclusively ph...
January 29, 2017 at 18:48
Physicalism isn't empirical. It's a metaphysical doctrine.
January 29, 2017 at 18:45
We're asking whether physicalism logically entails all Xs. If it doesn't, then some Xs aren't physical.
January 29, 2017 at 18:37
If we're trying to determine whether physicalism is true, we can ask whether it's logically possible for there to be a duplicate physical world lackin...
January 29, 2017 at 18:03
Physicalism is true iff everything is logically necessitated by physicis, such that a God-like being from the Big Bang could predict what sorts of thi...
January 29, 2017 at 17:38
Sure, but "physicalism is true" is what's in question, so that would be assuming the conclusion.
January 29, 2017 at 17:30
Space is something, though. It's tied in with time. Gravity warps it. And virtual particles come in and out of existence at very small scales. Also, e...
January 29, 2017 at 15:25
I'm asking in what sense strong emergentism and non-reductive physicalism are not forms of dualism, as laid out in the OP.
January 29, 2017 at 10:05
Is this by definition?
January 28, 2017 at 23:18
Ontologically speaking, nothing has no place. But linguistically speaking, it's a very useful concept that's hard to do without. And this may be the c...
January 28, 2017 at 19:40
I would take issue with this one. A physically identical being lacking consciousness is not human. It's a p-zombie. But then we're arguing semantics a...
January 28, 2017 at 16:13
Yeah, but what exactly does it mean to supervene? According to Chalmers, physicalism require logical supervenience, which rules out strong emergentism...
January 27, 2017 at 21:24
Good luck with that.
January 27, 2017 at 09:10
Why would that be? Do you depend on language to perceive? To feel? To dream? Are all of life's intricacies and issues captured in language? What is th...
January 27, 2017 at 09:09
Practice Zen Buddhism, but even Zen Buddhists communicate with words, so ... Why do we want to be liberated from language? We're human beings, and lan...
January 26, 2017 at 20:50
Freedom is slavery. So is the recommendation that we change our language games in order to become more moral? Isn't that what politically correct spee...
January 26, 2017 at 15:43
You're right. Conservatives are real big on that. The goal is to defund Government so that business can take over. Because business interests are supe...
January 24, 2017 at 02:55
But why couldn't the stomach the alternative? What was so very bad about Clinton, or Obama before her? I don't see anything so terrible that Trump bec...
January 23, 2017 at 23:50
If you've ever watched a show or read a story with magic in it, you can. A magical spell would conceivably cause ordinary food not to nourish. This is...
January 23, 2017 at 23:37
No, it's not, because materialism has a mind/body problem until the day arrives that all of the mind can be understood in material terms. The p-zombie...
January 23, 2017 at 23:35
I thought Landru's campaign against realism was supposed to save us from a world or right wing memes? Wasn't realism responsible for slavery, oppressi...
January 23, 2017 at 05:59
What do see as the role of education? To get a job? Does poor Mary really need philosophy class to become a nurse? I'm expressing my general cynicism ...
January 23, 2017 at 05:36
Ironic that it broke out into a philosophical discussion? She did ask on a philosophy forum. That's the risk. Might actually provoke a discussion. Wit...
January 23, 2017 at 05:34
The reason it doesn't beg the question is because we have neuroscience, biology, chemistry and what not to understand the behavior living systems with...
January 23, 2017 at 03:44
A meat suit, since it's a philosophical zombie. I tend to think the argument is incoherent, because it poses problems for meaning. But in it's defense...
January 23, 2017 at 03:39
Jesus man, so taking a philosophy class has nothing to do with the reason humans engage in philosophical query. No wonder I'm so cynical about schooli...
January 23, 2017 at 00:52
Isn't that what the migrant workers are for? Get paid slave wages way below minimum requirements and no benefits? You have to ask yourself why no Repu...
January 23, 2017 at 00:50
What do you expect? They have 5 times as many people, and we found it in our economic interest to trade with them. Expect India to follow suit, and Af...
January 23, 2017 at 00:35
What makes you think Trump is any better? What makes you think that by being President he will make America more virtuous and pragmatic?
January 23, 2017 at 00:24
When coupled with a hand to calculate the symbols, why isn't it?
January 23, 2017 at 00:23
What greatness was destroyed? Last hope for what? Save America from what? Cheap Chinese goods? Evil climate scientists? Below minimum wage migrant lab...
January 23, 2017 at 00:21
Do you really believe this? That's straight up propaganda. It's not remotely accurate. It's just right wing talking points.
January 23, 2017 at 00:13
So pencil and paper implementing that software would also have the same experience.
January 23, 2017 at 00:12
But it doesn't. What you really mean is that if everyone with the same evidence and rational ability started off with the same premises, then they wou...
January 23, 2017 at 00:10
Quite a few people on this forum care about philosophy beyond it being useful for learning how to construct arguments. Take a logic class if that's th...
January 23, 2017 at 00:04